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THE PREPOSITIONAL CASEWHEN IS THE PREPOSITIONAL USED?Generally, we use the prepositional case...- with the prepositions в y на (on / in / at): Я в школе - I'm at school / Моя книга на столе - My book is on the table.- with the preposition о (about): Я думаю о тебе - I'm thinking about you.WHAT WILL WE LEARN IN THIS LESSON? We are going to learn the prepositional case of adjectives and pronouns.

USEFUL VOCABULARY IN RUSSIAN

This is the new Russian vocabulary that you will learn in this lesson. Read, listen and repeat the words.

If you still don't know how to read the Cyrillic alphabet, visit our course on how to read Russian.Click here to go to lesson 1.

MORE HELP: REFERENCE MATERIALStaken from our course Tables of Russian Grammar Look up these tables while you read the Russian dialogues:ADJECTIVES: Prepositional Case. See tablePERSONAL PRONOUNS: Prepositional Case. See tablePOSSESSIVE PRONOUNS: Prepositional Case. See table

*Don't memorize the tables. Use them only for quick reference.

DIALOGUE 1:

ENGLISH

- Hi Natasha! I've heard that now you live in a big city.

- Yes, last year I found a job in Moscow. Before, I lived in a small apartment in a bad neighbourhood, but last week I found a new apartment and I'm very happy.

- That's great! And I live in our small city and I'm also happy. I'm a journalist and work for a popular newspaper.

- And what do you write about?

- About everything. Sometimes I write about urban life, sometimes about sport events, and sometimes about famous people. And where do you work?- I work in a language school, I teach Russian language. My pupils are foreigners. They work for foreign companies in Moscow. I love telling them about the Russian language, about the Russian culture and about our traditions.

- Hi neighbour! Do you know, who lives now in the fifth apartment on the first floor?

- I think that in that apartment live the Ivanovs. Mr Ivanov is a doctor and works at a children's hostpital, and Mrs Ivanova works at an old theatre in Green Street.

- No! The Ivanovs live in the sixth apartment on the second floor. And I'm asking about the new neighbours.

- I didn't know that in our building there are new neighbours.

- They came last week. (People) say that before they were living in the Far East, but now they are on a pension and they want to live in a quiet place.- I know which neighbours you're talking about! He moves in an old red car and she goes to the supermarket in a horrible blue dress!

- Yes, that's them! Do you know anything about them, about their children, what did they do in the Far East?

- I'm reading about little children and their life in the modern school. I'm studying at the faculty of psychology and I love reading about different people and their problems. And what do you read about?

- I don't love reading very much. I prefer watching programs on animals. Next week there'll be a program on wild animals in the Russian forests. I think it's going to be interesting.

- Maybe. And, I read magazines about modern science. This week I've read an interesting article about our planet and other planets in our System. Very interesting.

- By the way, do you know that in March in the modern theatre there's going to be a performance about Russian cosmonauts? I still haven't been in the theatre this year! We can buy cheap tickets on the Internet.- Excellent idea! In that theatre they always do interesting performances about famous scientists. Let's check tickets in my computer.